Metadata is mostly for organizing and presenting Parameters in a better way when using CloudFormation in the AWS Web UI.
These are the input parameters for this template. All of these parameters must be supplied for this template to be deployed.
These are all of the actual AWS resources created for this application.
Security group for the OpsWorks application instances themselves. Needs to permit incoming traffice from the ELB, and any other authorized incoming sources.
This is the Security Group that wraps the Load Balancer. This controls what network traffic is allowed into the ELB. Just web traffic is allowed from anywhere.
Defines the Security Group for the RDS Database. This restricts DB access to only the devices in the InstanceSecurityGroup, so our App nodes.
Output values that can be viewed from the AWS CloudFormation console.
KFS SecurityGroups CloudFormation Deployment
This CloudFormation template will build out the security groups required for a KFS environment. This template must be run immediately prior to kfs_opsworks.yaml and values from this template passed to the following one.